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Originally Posted by HPsauce
Watched it live, quite impressive. Missed the Don't Panic though!
But if you think that's awesome with its 27 engines look up the Rocketdyne F-1. The fuel pump alone for that ran at 41MW.
And of course 5 of them made up the first stage of the Saturn-V. Just two would have significantly more thrust than the whole Falcon heavy.
Designed over 60 years ago and as far as I know never failed in service.
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The Saturn-V certainly takes some beating as an achievement, especially considering how primitive the technology was at the time!
I think the impressive thing about Falcon Heavy though, is that not only is it the largest rocket in use today but that it's re-usable (how cool was the landing of those boosters!?), which now makes it the cheapest way to launch large payloads (by far). What's perhaps even more impressive is that this was primarily achieved through private investment.
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